Dreams Like Enigmatic Paintings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781291485738)

Henri Michaux, Belgian poet, writer and painter, finally published his Dreams Like Enigmatic Paintings (En revant a partir de peintures eigmatiques) in 1972. The text is a series of dreamscapes which came to him having seen a few of Magritte's paintings. It is not an interpretation of Magritte, but a logical continuation of Michaux's own work in poetic form. Michaux's style of writing has the intimacy of a dream journal, and yet the distance of a chronicler of dislocation. He is not comfortable to read, not only in the form of his writing, but also in the psychotic edginess of his narrative. I have tried to maintain this balance in my translation, avoiding the temptation to save the reader from undue ease. Michael Eales has an MA in Literary Translation

Author: Michael Eales
ISBN-10: 1291485732
ISBN-13: 9781291485738
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2013
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.17d